Swapping Crops
180 views · Published 4 November 2009 · 3:24 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: UN Environment Programme · 2009 · Nonprofits & Activism
For millennia the people of southern Nepal have grown rice - in a country where the grain is a symbol of worship, other crops are considered unworthy. But monsoon rains, which rice cultivation so desperately depends on, have become increasingly erratic, leading farmers to think, and in some cases implement, the unthinkable - bananas!
